SpaceX Crew-9 Mission to ‘rescue’ Sunita Williams now poised for takeoff 

SpaceX is set to launch two astronauts into orbit on Saturday amid efforts to ‘rescue’ Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore. The Dragon spacecraft will take off from Cape Canaveral in Florida around 10:45 pm IST with a reduced crew — docking at the International Space Station in about 30 hours. “The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will carry NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov to the orbiting laboratory for a five-month science mission,” reiterated an excerpt from the mission page on the NASA website.